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- a coherent answer to the question
- discussion of issues and ideas that relate to the question
- demonstration of your understanding of those ideas
- use of evidence to back up each stage of your argument
- evidence of reading around the subject (i.e. not just regurgitation of a single set of lecture notes or a single book on the topic)
- evidence of reflection – thinking about the evidence and theories you are discussing and treating them critically
- analysis, not description
- precision, not generalization
- evidence of editing – is your material in the best possible order? are your words really saying what you want to say?
- evidence of proofreading
